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An Implementation of an Integrated Degasing System for Aluminum Molten Metal in Continuous Casting (알루미늄 연속주조 용탕의 탈 가스 일체화 장치 개발)

  • Lee, Yong-Joong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2008
  • There are some methods that have been used to manage a degasing process in recent years, such as an injection method that uses aluminum molten metal powder and chemicals supplier and input method that supplies argon and nitrogen, or chlorine gas by using a gas blow-tube. However, these methods show some problems, and it shows that it is a difficult process to handle, pollution due to producing a lot of toxic gases like chlorine and fluoride gas, irregular effects, and lowering work efficiency due to the excessive processing time. The problems that are the most fatal are the producing a lot of sludge due to the reaction of aluminum molten metal with chemicals, loss of metals, and decreasing the life of refractory materials. In order to solve these problems, this paper develops a technology that is related to aluminum continuous casting molten metal and monolithic degasing apparatus. A degasing apparatus developed in this study improved the existing methods and prevented environmental pollution with smokeless, odorless, and harmlessness by using a new method that applies argon and nitrogen gas in which the methods used in the West and Japan are eliminated. The method developed in this study decreases the molten metal processing and settling time compared to the existing methods and improves the workers' health, safety, and environment because there is no pollution in processes.

Comparative Analysis of Indoor Mixture Gas Patterns and Reference Single Gas Patterns Obtained from E-Nose for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring

  • Choi, Jang Sik;Yu, Joon Boo;Jeon, Jin Young;Lee, Sang Hun;Kim, Jae Hong;Park, Jang Pyo;Jeong, Yong Won;Byun, Hyung Gi
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.227-231
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    • 2018
  • Indoor air pollution has become a serious issue, affecting the health and comfort of building occupants. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are among the most common indoor contaminants, and are released from numerous indoor emission sources. Among the VOCs, formaldehyde and toluene are toxic chemicals at low levels and are frequently detected indoors. Exposure to formaldehyde and toluene can irritate sensitive tissue and may increase the risk of cancer. Therefore, monitoring formaldehyde and toluene is critical for the health and comfort of residents. In addition, as human indoor activities can generate VOC gases, analysis of their influence on VOCs is needed. In this study, we compared electronic nose (E-Nose) data for formaldehyde and toluene with E-Nose data for indoor mixture gas with consideration for human indoor activities.

Progressive Process Design for Delta Sash in Vehicles (차량용 델타샤시의 프로그레시브 공정 설계)

  • Ko, Young Jun;Kwak, Hyo Seo;Bae, Jun Ho;Kim, Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.31 no.12
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    • pp.1161-1170
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    • 2014
  • Delta sash is an important part of automobile door, which has the functions of supporting and guiding seesaw of car's window, preventing dust and air from outside. In previous manufacturing process, each part of the delta sash was independently formed by tandem processes, and rubber is bonded to steel by poisonous glue. So, the previous processes, including roll forming process and toxic gases, had low production rate and high failure rate. In this study, progressive process design of the delta sash was proposed in order to increase productivity and high utilization of the materials. And instead of the poisonous glue used for adhesion of rubber in the previous tandem process, embossing and piercing processes were designed in the new guide to help the rubber to adhere well to steel. And the optimal piercing distance was designed to ensure structural safety, and prototypes were manufactured for verifying reliability of the processes.

A research of hydrophobic surface treatment with RF atmospheric plasma (R.F. 대기압 플라즈마를 이용한 소수성 표면처리 연구)

  • Hong, Sung-Min;Kim, Jeong-Hoon;Cho, Jung-Hee;Kim, Kyung-Soo;Hwang, Hak-In
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.103-105
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    • 2005
  • The importance of protecting people from harsh weather conditions cannot be over-emphasized and the way to. do so should be sought vigorously. The most well known and widely used weather protection fabric in the current industry is $Gor-Tex.^1$ However, the Gore-Tex membrane cannot be attached to cotton or other natural fibers so it's use is not suitable for clothing such as underwear. If the exterior of cotton fabric can be made to be hydrophobic without sacrificing the comfort and breathability, the result will be a cotton fabric with the weather protection capability equivalent to Gore-Tex as well as the ability to provide the best wear comfort. However, this should be done without using toxic and expensive gases to be environmentally friendly and cost effective. Therefore, our approach for hydrophobic treatments of fabric and metal surfaces is to utilize a plasma-based technique. In general, plasma processes do not produce chemical wastes or waste disposal problems and they are fully automated.

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Reduction of Thermal Radiation from Flare Stack by Flare Gas Recovery Unit (폐가스 회수장치를 이용한 플레어스택의 복사열 감소)

  • Lee, Heon-Seok;Lee, Dong-Heuk;Yoo, Jin-Hwan;Park, Chul-Hwan;Ko, Jae-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.40-45
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    • 2011
  • During process operations, overpressure can be caused by operator's error or malfunction of the device. To prevent this overpressure, gas was released through blowdown system. Because most of released gases are the hydrocarbon mixture and have flammable and toxic properties, the gas is released after burning in flare stack. The increase of scale and complexity of plant requires higher or additional flare stacks. This study tried to solve this problem through flare gas recovery system.

The Electron Temperature and Density Properties of Mixed Gases in ICP Lighting System : (Ne:Xe, Ne:Ar) (ICP 광원 시스템의 Ne:Xe 및 Ne:Ar 혼합가스의 전자온도 및 전자밀도 특성)

  • Lee, Jong-Chan;Choi, Yong-Sung;Park, Dae-Hee;Choi, Gi-Seung
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.55 no.3
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    • pp.156-160
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    • 2006
  • In whole world consciousness of environment maintenance have increased very quickly for the end of the 20th century. To use and disuse toxic substances have been controled at the field of industry. Also the field of lighting source belong to environmental control. And in the future the control will be strong. In radiational mechanism of fluorescence lamp mercury is the worst environmental problem and root. In the mercury free lighting source system the Xe gas lamp is one type. And the Ne:Xe and Ne:Ar mixed gas lamp improve firing voltage of Xe gas lamp. Purpose of this study is to understand ideal mixing-ratio of Ne:Xe and Ne:Ar gas by electron temperature and electron density for mercury free lamp. Before ICP was designed, basic parameters of plasma, which are electron temperature and electron density, were measured and calculated by single-Langmuir probe. Property of electron temperature and electron density were confirmed by changing ratio of Ne:Xe and Ne:Ar.

Removal Characteristics of Gaseous Contaminants by a Wet Scrubber with Different Packing Materials (충진제의 종류에 따른 습식 스크러버의 가스상 물질 제거특성)

  • Han, Bang-Woo;Kim, Hak-Joon;Kim, Yong-Jin;Han, Kyeong-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.744-751
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    • 2007
  • Wet scrubber is widely used to remove toxic gaseous contaminants in various industries such as semi-conductor industry, display manufacturing industry and so on. In this study, to optimize a packed bed scrubber as one of typical wet scrubber size while keeping its performance, four different packing materials were investigated at different air flow rates, liquid-gas ratios and pH values. Ammonia, hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid were used as test gases to characterize the scrubber performance. Gas removal efficiency increased as the packing size decreased, which resulted in the increase of specific surface area. The increase of air flow rate led to the decrease of gas removal efficiency, while the increase of liquid-gas ratio led to the increase of gas removal efficiency. For the case of $NH_3$ gas, lower pH, and for the cases of HCl and HF, higher pH contributed to higher gas removal efficiency. Gas removal efficiency of a wet scrubber increased in the order of HCl < $NH_3$ < HF according to its water solubility.

Plasma Diagnosis of Ne:Xe, Ne:Ar Mixed Gases by Single Langmuir Probe in Inductively Coupled Plasma Light Source System (ICP 광원 시스템의 Ne:Xe, Ne:Ar 혼합가스의 단일탐침법을 이용한 플라즈마 진단)

  • Choi, Yong-Sung;Lee, Woo-Ki;Moon, Jong-Dae;Lee, Kyung-Sup;Lee, Sang-Heon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.91-95
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    • 2006
  • In whole world consciousness of environment maintenance have increased very quickly for the end of the 20th century. To use and disuse toxic substances have been controled at the field of industry. Also the field of lighting source belong to environmental control. And in the future the control will be strong. In radiational mechanism of fluorescence lamp mechanism is the worst environmental problem. In radiational mechanism of fluorescence lamp mercury is the worst environmental problem root. In the mercury free lighting source system the Xe gas lamp is one type. And the Ne:Xe mixing gas lamp improvements firing voltage of Xe gas lamp. Purpose and subject of this study are understand, efficiency, ideal of Ne:Xe plasma which mercury free lamp. Before ICP was designed, basic parameters of plasma, which are electron temperature and electron density, were measured and calculated by Langmuir probe data. Property of electron temperature and electron density were confirmed by changing ratio of Ne:Xe.

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Evaluation of 0ff-gas Characteristics in Vitrification Process of ion-Exchange Resin

  • Park, S. C.;Kim, H. S.;K. H. Yang;C. H. Yun;T. W. Hwang;S. W. Shin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2001
  • The properties of off-gas generated from vitrification process of ion-exchange resin were characterized. Theoretical composition and flow rate of the off-gas were calculated based on chemical composition of resin and it's burning condition inside CCM. The calculated off-gas flow rate was 67.9Nm$^3$/h at the burning rate of 40kg/h. And the composition of off-gas was avaluated as $CO_2$(41.4%), steam(40.0%), $O_2$(13.3%), NO(3.6%), and SO$_2$(1.6%) in order. Then, actual flow rate and composition of off-gas were measured during pilot-scale demonstration tests and the results were compared with theoretical values. The actual flow rate of off-gas was about 1.6 times higher than theoretical one. The difference between theoretical and actual flow rates was caused by the in-leakage of air to the system, and the in-leakage rate was evaluated as 36.3Nm$^3$/h. Because of continuous change in the combustion parameters inside CCM, during demonstration tests, the concentration of toxic gases showed wide fluctuation. However, the concentration of CO, a barometer of incompleteness of combustion inside CCM, was stabilized soon. The result showed quasi-equilibrium state was achieved two hours after feeding of resin.

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A study on importance of MSDS education (MSDS 교육의 중요성에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Sung-Jai
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.209-215
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    • 2015
  • Following the semiconductor industry's growing, various types of toxic gases and caustic chemicals, HF(Hydrofluoric acid), HCI (Hydochloric acid), $H_2O_2$ (Hydrogen peroxide), $H_2SO_4$ (Sulfuric acid), and Piranha, were using on the semiconductor manufacturing process. Therefore many gas leakage accidents that produce huge losses of lives were caused by the processes. This research deeply considers two basic solutions that the necessity of MSDS education on university for reducing damage of lives and protecting life from chemical leak accidents such as a HF accident in Gumi, Korea and the use of GHS, REACH and the comprehension of propriety about using MSDS for keeping safety from conflagrations by released poison chemical materials.